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Saturday April 7, 2012

A howling success

Helen Aitken's creative non-fiction story, "Wolf Man Howls Into Manhood," won first place in the South Carolina Writers Workshop's Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Awards Competition. The award includes a full scholarship to the workshop and publication in The Petigru Review, the literary journal of the SCWW. Her humorous, creative non-fiction short story, "Death For Lunch," also was selected to appear in the October issue.

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Judy Gruen

In her new book, Till We Eat Again: A Second Helping, award-winning Los Angeles author and humor columnist Judy Gruen goes on a quest to streamline her body and outsource her fat during the months leading up to a college reunion. A former EBWW faculty member, Gruen has written several books, including The Women's Daily Irony Supplement, which earned multiple awards for humor, and Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Motherhood as Shuttle Diplomacy. ...

Michele "Wojo" Wojciechowski

Comedy writer Alan Zweibel quips that Michele "Wojo" Wojciechowski's humor "is so smart, insightful and witty that for a moment I thought I was reading something I'd written." Her first book, Next Time I Move, They'll Carry Me Out in a Box, shares the universal misadventures associated with moving. Read an excerpt. An award-winning writer and humorist from Baltimore, Wojo blogs at Wojo's World. She served on the 2012 EBWW faculty. ...

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